PART V APPEAL TRIBUNALS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRACTING OUT OF PENSIONS VACCINE DAMAGE AND CHILD SUPPORT

CHAPTER ITHE PANEL AND APPEAL TRIBUNALS

Persons appointed to the panel35

F12For the purposes of section 6(3), the panel shall include persons with the qualifications specified in Schedule 3.

Composition of appeal tribunalsC1 36

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F12 Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, an appeal tribunal F2 ... shall consist of a legally qualified panel member.

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Subject to F3paragraphs (3) to (5) F7and (8), an appeal tribunal shall consist of a legally qualified panel member and—

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F12a medically qualified panel member where—

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the issue, or one of the issues, raised on the appeal is whether the F4personal capability assessment is satisfied; or

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the appeal is made under section 11(1)(b) of the 1997 Act; or

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the appeal is made under section 157(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003; or

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F12Where the composition of an appeal tribunal is prescribed under F5paragraph (1), (2)(a)F8or (3), the President may determine that the appeal tribunal shall include such an additional member drawn from the panel constituted under section 6 as he considers appropriate for the purposes of providing further experience for that additional member or for assisting the President in the monitoring of standards of decision making by panel members.

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F12A person shall not act as a medically qualified panel member of an appeal tribunal in any appeal if he has at any time advised or prepared a report upon any person whose medical condition is relevant to the issue in the appeal, or has at any time regularly attended such a person.

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Assignment of clerks to appeal tribunals: function of clerks37

F12The Secretary of State shall assign a clerk to service each appeal tribunal and the clerk so assigned shall be responsible for summoning members of the panel constituted under section 6 to serve on the tribunal.